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It took me a while to get the hang of the difference between comics and picture books. I made a picture book a while ago called “Little Mouse Gets Ready,” about a mouse trying to get dressed, for Françoise Mouly, the publisher of Toon Books. The whole story appeared in my head like magic: being a kid and learning to dress, putting on the underwear, struggling with buttons and buttonholes, and the payoff at the end. It took less than two weeks to write, draw and ink that entire book. That’s never happened before and was actually pretty fun.

What drew these two to the field of itinerant poetry? “We love sharing our love of poetry with the world,” said the young bard as she closed her book. True to the nature of their profession, the traveling minstrels would soon be packing up and heading to another city–they had recently spent a few weeks at Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA–where they would continue to spread good vibes via inspired verse.

Decide whether you want a ‘full-bleed’ spread with no borders or, if that would crop away key areas of your photo, choose a ‘container’ size smaller than the spread. Use the template’s guidelines when placing images, making sure you drag the photo over the edge of the bleed line so it prints to the edge of the page.

When I started reading John Carreyrou’s book on the failed health startup Theranos, I wasn’t quite sure what I’d learn from it. As a health care journalist, I’d already been an avid follower of Carreyrou’s work — namely, his award-winning stories for the Wall Street Journal that revealed Theranos’s false claims that it could perform dozens of medical tests with a tiny blood sample.

My copy of the Idaho Falls Area Birds by the Snake River Audubon Society and the Idaho Falls Parks and Recreation Department is already well used.

There seems no better time than the eve of Halloween to feature the artwork of Charles Addams, the American illustrator whose penchant for the macabre gave us The Addams Family, as well as many wonderfully dark New Yorker cartoons. Besides, one of his most interesting pieces is headed to auction in two weeks. On November 13, Doyle will offer the original drawing for the dust jacket of Addams’ Dear Dead Days: A Family Album, published in 1959, that indeed features the famous family, each of whom appears to be contemplating their demise. The ink and gouache on board is signed and further inscribed “For Margie & Alex with affection – Chas Addams, New York 1959”–“Alex” being Alexander King, author and mid-century media personality, from whose estate this drawing derives. The estimate is $20,000-30,000. Image courtesy of Doyle

The personalised kids’ books trend keeps on trucking – and the duo behind this Scottish startup thinks their ‘doing’ books, featuring real children’s faces, give it an edge.

Whisk together the ingredients for the Vinaigrette Dressing. Wash and dry the mixture of lettuces and salad leaves and tear into bite-sized pieces. Spread both sides of the rounds of bread with softened butter. Put onto a baking sheet and bake in a moderate oven, 180°C/Gas Mark 4, until golden and crisp on both sides, 20 minutes approx. Rub them with a clove of garlic and keep hot in a low oven with the door slightly open. Blanch and refresh the bacon, dry well on kitchen paper. Just before serving, sauté the bacon dice in a little extra virgin olive oil until golden.

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Raymond Chandler and Quentin Tarantino, among many others, proved that pulp can be art. But their works are exceptions.

The effects are reverberating across the industry. This fall, W.W. Norton had to scramble to salvage an author’s book tour when they learned that books would not be available on his October publication date because the printers were overbooked. The author, James M. Scott, had more than a dozen events planned in October to promote his book, “Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita and the Battle of Manila,” but the printer could not deliver books until roughly a month later.